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- Sankashu
Suteyarade inochi o ouru hito wa mina chiji no kogane o mote kaeru nari
All who end their lives unable to let go are like the eldest son of Fan Li, carrying back home his thousands in gold.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsukihateshi sono iriai no hodonasa o kono akatsuki ni omoishirinuru
How short the time was, from the evening bell that was struck to its end, to the ending of life, I have come to know at this dawn.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Naki hito o kasumeru sora ni magauru wa michi o hedatsuru kokoro naru beshi
That the one who has died should be lost in the hazy sky must be the heart of the haze, meaning to divide the path between this world and the next.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Chiru to mireba mata saku hana no nioi ni mo okure sakidatsu tameshi arikeri
When I see some blossoms scatter while others only now begin to bloom, I find that even flowers show how some are left behind and others go before.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuki o mite izure no toshi no aki made ka kono yo ni ware ga chisari aruran
Gazing at the moon, I wonder until the autumn of which year it is my lot to remain in this world and see it so.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ikade ware koyoi no tsuki o mi ni soete shide no yamaji no hito o terasan
Somehow I long to take tonight's moon along with me and light the way for those who travel the mountain path of death.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Sono ori no yomogi ga moto no makura ni mo kaku koso mushi no ne ni wa mutsureme
Even when that time comes, pillowed beneath the mugwort in my grave, I will surely keep company like this with the voices of the insects.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Toribeno ya washi no takane no sue naran keburi o wakete izuru tsukikage
Toribeno! This must be a far reach of the Vulture Peak, for here the moonlight comes forth, parting the smoke of the pyres.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hakanakute suginishi kata o omou ni mo ima mo sa koso wa asagao no tsuyu
When I think of the past, gone by so fleetingly, I know the present too is just the same, the dew upon a morning glory.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Morotomo ni nagame nagamete aki no tsuki hitori ni naran koto zo kanashiki
The autumn moon that we have gazed at together so many times, how sad that I will now be left to watch it alone.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tazunu tomo kaze no tsute ni mo kikaji kashi hana to chirinishi kimi ga yukue o
However I may seek, I will not hear of it even on the wind: where she has gone, who scattered like the blossoms.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Fuku kaze no yukue shirasuru mono naraba hana to chiru ni mo okurezaramashi
If the blowing wind could only tell me where she has gone, I would not be left behind, but would scatter with her like the blossoms.
Sankashu - Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Migakareshi tama no sumika o tsuyu fukaki nobe ni utsushite miru zo kanashiki
How sad it is to see one who dwelt in a palace polished like a jewel now moved out to the dew-drenched fields.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Koyoi koso omoishirarure asakaranu kimi ni chigiri no aru mi narikeri
Tonight, above all, I have come to know it: I am one bound to my lord by a karmic tie that runs deep.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Michi kawaru miyuki kanashiki koyoi kana kagiri no tabi to miru ni tsukete mo
How sad tonight, this procession on a road unlike any other, as I watch it knowing it is his very last journey.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Towaba ya to omoiyorade zo nagekamashi mukashi nagara no waga mi nariseba
Had I still been as I was in the old days, I would only have grieved, never thinking to stay and offer prayers for him.
Sankashu - Saigyō